“Oxygen masks deployed and we descended quickly and we’re diverted to Tampa,” one passenger tweeted Thursday night on a Delta Airlines flight that took off from Atlanta and was scheduled to land in Fort Lauderdale.

In a statement to Tampa television station WFTS, a spokesperson for Delta said Flight 2353 was "diverted to Tampa out of an abundance of caution and landed without incident following a cabin pressurization irregularity en route.”

As the aircraft lost altitude and the oxygen masks came down, passenger Harris DeWoskin said there was some panic among those on the flight.

“I immediately reached out to my girlfriend, my family and let them know some scary stuff is going on right now on the plane," DeWoskin told WFTS.

After the plane landed in Tampa, some passengers were bused to Fort Lauderdale while others were booked on alternate flights to their destinations.

The aircraft was being examined by maintenance crews.

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